KTM 2-Stroke Hybrid - WTF?
Posted: September 1st, 2009, 1:41 pm
Have a gander at this:
From: http://twostrokemotocross.com/2009/08/s ... ng-to-ktm/
From: http://twostrokemotocross.com/2009/08/s ... ng-to-ktm/
Scoop! Future of the 2T according to KTM?
By JohnNicholas • on August 19, 2009
This article is translated from Moto Verte from it’s original French.
Astonishing, disconcerting, here could it with what resemble the future KTM 2T the horizon 2015,2020 or 2030? There is the question… One waiting to know if this project is realistic or not, one can detail towards which direction the engineers work. And certain technical solutions are surprising…
This very realistic illustration of a KTM “New Stroke Hybrid” bearing the name of 125 estampillée XCH year 2030 comes without any doubt from the department R & D from Mattighoffen. And the least which one can say is that it is indeed surprising in more than one way. Among the original technical solutions suggested one will retain the following points:
KTM 125 Hybrid. Is this a 2015 model? Or a 2020?
ENGINE
* 125 2 times with double direct injection (fuel and oil) for an announced power going from 35 to 45 bhp.
(There, one can wonder whether there is not an error because the power expressed in bhp - heating energy used for example to give the power of the boilers - and not in HP. However, conversion gives the trifle of 460 HP (horse power). It is much! While taking 3,5 bhp, one arrives at 46 CV what is more reasonable. So technicians have an opinion on the question, which they do not hesitate with us to make share…)
* Exhaust with catalytic silencer not exceeding the 92 dB.
* Battery of GREEN traction - Accumulator Nor-MH with fast charger “intelligent”.
* Order gazs electronic. (As on the electric motor bikes!)
* Single radiator.
FRAME
* Back suspension with spring leaf carbon (idem with that developed by Yamaha in 1995 and tested in race by Yves Thinned out with the GP of France with Ifendic)
* Regenerating brakes of energy of a power of 8 kw. (Used today in F1)
* Frame monoshell.
* Tank under saddle (idem KTM 690 Enduro)
* Rims in composite and sticks flexible. (Already tested in the past in TT, but which never gave satisfaction).
* Tubeless tires.
* Biodegradable plastic preparing
* Dry announced weight of 96,6 kg. (What appears very precise for a machine expérimentalle!)
Interesting, not? Simple is delirious of designer or real working tracks… And you, that do you think about it?
